3-D direct matching interpolation for rotary scanning echo-cardial images

In the present paper, a method of three dimension direct matching interpolation for a series of 2-D echo-cardial images with intersecting each other and arranging at an angle in space has been developed. It is different from the conventional interpolation. During the interpolation, sectional images are acquired and the 3-D spatial position of `empty voxel' in sectional images is located; secondly, the cubic volume is constructed, and the motion orbit of images between two windows where the nearest original image intersects to the volume is found up, passing through the `empty voxel'; In the end, based on the matching pixels, the `empty voxel' is interpolated. This method simplifies the two interpolating procedures of the conventional methods into one procedure, and overcomes the shortcoming of the overlap of image data. Experiments show that the accuracy and reasonability of interpolation can be improved by the proposed method.